Archive for June 19th, 2009
Raid in Sheriff Joe’s Country Leaves a 9 Year Old Girl Without Parents
10:35 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · arizona|children|Family|Immigration · 6 Comments
19 Jun 2009I cannot wrap my mind around a few things at play here.
One, how anti-immigration activists can dehumanize the children of immigrants and immigrant children to the point that leaving a child without parents is ok. Or that a 9 year old’s murder is ok.
I also cannot understand how President Obama can keep postponing meetings on immigration and legislators drag their feet as if people are not being killed and children aren’t being left as defacto orphans by immigration enforcement.
Court Sticks Mom of 4 with 2 Million Dollar Fine for File-sharing
9:09 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Entertainment|Internet|Justice|Media|society · 3 Comments
19 Jun 2009
The RIAA is at it again, trying to “teach people a lesson” about illegal file sharing — what they call “piracy” — through our judicial system. I guess they think the lesson is best taught by going after innocuous users of file-sharing sites like Kazaa, like Minnesota mother of 4 Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who has been saddled with a 1.92 million dollar fine for sharing 24 songs. That’s $80,000 per song.
Thomas-Rasset sat glumly with her chin in hand as she heard the jury’s finding of willful infringement, which increased the potential penalty. She raised her eyebrows in surprise when the jury’s penalty of $80,000 per song was read.Outside the courtroom, she called the $1.92 million figure “kind of ridiculous” but expressed resignation over the decision.
“There’s no way they’re ever going to get that,” said Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of four from the central Minnesota city of Brainerd. “I’m a mom, limited means, so I’m not going to worry about it now.”
Her attorney, Kiwi Camara, said he was surprised by the size of the judgment. He said it suggested that jurors didn’t believe Thomas-Rasset’s denials of illegal file-sharing, and that they were angry with her.
AP reports that the jury could have fined Thomas-Rasset up to $150,000 per song. So she got off easy then?
I find it interesing that a jury was so harsh with her. Did they not understand what the “crime” was? She had her music collection open for sharing with others, she didn’t kill any of the artists who recorded the music.
What kind of country do we live in when someone gets fined nearly 2 million dollars for that and others get away, literally, with murder?
Via / AP
Peru Repeals Two Land Laws at the the Core of Deadly Attacks on Indigenous
8:15 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Peru|Politics · Comments Off
19 Jun 2009
Yesterday Peru’s Congress overturned two laws at the heart of the violence between the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and Peruvian police.
The vote to throw out legislative decrees 1090 and 1064 could delay foreign investment in mining and energy projects in the rain forest, and may prompt Peru and the United States to reevaluate clauses of their free-trade pact. [ID:nN06294730]
President Alan Garcia issued a series of decrees last year under powers Congress gave him to implement the U.S. trade deal and create a framework to regulate investment in the Amazon.
But after deadly violence, he backtracked and asked Congress to overturn two of the most divisive laws, although others remain in effect.
I haven’t sat down to read a comprehensive list of all the laws that impact this region and the people living there, pero I am more interesting in seeing which laws remain in effect and how those will be used. I came across this piece from Foreign Policy in Focus that puts the situation in a more global Latin American context as well as linking the laws in Peru to the imperialist idea that free trade agreements are “gifts” from the first world to the third world. A real interesting read.
Via / Inka Kola News
NYC Bus to AMC Fundraising Happy Hour Tonite
6:12 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference|Detriot|Events|Media|New York City · Comments Off
19 Jun 2009
NYC.to.AMC Happy Hour!
@ DCTV / 87 Lafayette Street, between White and Walker
Friday, June 19, 2009
6pm-10pm
$10 at the door (includes one drink!)
Get off work and bring your friends to enjoy…
* Fresh food!
* Sangria & Iced Hibiscus Tea!
* Live DJ!
* Raffle!
* Hot multimedia!
Come see how we’re representing for NYC at the 2009 Allied Media Conference.
Hosted by DCTV, PPH, and PEP. All proceeds benefit the media justice bus from New York City to Detroit for the Allied Media Conference, July 16-19, 2009. NYC-2-AMC Delegation includes People’s Production House, Downtown Community Television, Palestine Education Project, Red Hook Initiative, Nah We Yone, INCITE!, UPROSE, Regeneración Childcare Collective, Palabra Radio, Global Action Project and Queers for Economic Justice. (This list is growing. If you’re not yet on it, but should be, please let us know.)
Questions about the event or to get on the bus: nyc@alliedmediaconference.org.
RSVP on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/m9gosf
About the AMC:
Allied Media Conference 2009
We Are Ready Now: Media and creativity to transform our selves and our world
The 11th annual Allied Media Conference will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment. We are ready to create, connect and transform. For more information and to register for the conference, visit www.alliedmediaconference.org.
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